We’re happy to announce that our April release, Lois Duncan’s Written in the Stars, will be reviewed in the March 15th issue of Kirkus. “…this collection stands as a tribute to the body of work that has poured out of Duncan’s pen since she herself was a girl.”
The first season of Lizzie Skurnick Books has received a wonderful flurry of attention, including pieces on NPR’s All Things Considered , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , Library Journal , New York Daily News , Newsday , and The Baltimore Sun ! In addition, some of our authors received individual accolades, including Lois Duncan in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times , and Ernest J. Gaines on NPR’s All Things Considered .
Dear Reader, It’s not every day that you get to kick off the best moment of your entire reading, working, writing, and book-loving life. But that’s what launching Lizzie Skurnick Books, and getting to bring back these beloved works of YA fiction, is to me. I didn’t become a reader until age 7, when I somehow happened upon the novelization Read more…
One of the biggest projects for LS Books was how to find a cover design that not only evoked all the great covers we loved in our youths — from the Holbein-esque paintings to the loopy fonts to the now-rare convention of not cutting anyone’s body in half — while at the same time alerting readers that we were doing something new, modern, and just for them. [I believe my directive, Read more…
We love our new covers, and we thought you’d like to take a look at the originals, too. Feel free to send us your favorite covers, or check out this amazing Facebook gallery , here.
